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In Association with Birmingham City University, The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research and the London College of Communication.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Punk NOW!!

Following the dynamic emergence of punk in the UK, USA and Europe in the 1970s, the subculture spread widely. As punk and new wave gained commercial and critical success, together with an attractive notoriety, it soon began an ongoing journey around the globe – both as a product and as an ideology.Punk, then, despite its omnipresence in contemporary underground and popular cultures, is clearly more than legacy music. More than forty years after the proto-punk progenitors of Detroit and New York unconsciously launched an underground revolution, to continue what some of the 60’s and 70’s anarchic counter culture propagated, and after untold premature obituaries, it appears that punk – in terms of music, philosophy, and identity – remains in rude health.

Punk scenes continue to thrive as far afield as Russia, South America, India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia – 2011 saw the first official record release from a Saudi Arabian punk band, Sound of Ruby, while other scenes have established their mark in Madagascar, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, even Tibet and the Himalayas. Meanwhile, nearer to home, an underground punk scene never actually went away and continues to ‘mutate and survive’– ranging from the continued support for longstanding bands and scenes, to the network of emerging small-scale gigs, fanzines, music distribution, (sub)cultural and political activities of a truly cross-generational subculture.

This joint conference and postgraduate symposium seeks to illuminate the current landscape of contemporary punk in all of its global, musical, political and (sub) cultural manifestations. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to)

·Punk for Sale: New genres and hybrid musical developments in punk musical aesthetics

The programme will consist of keynote speakers (tbc) and a number of thematically grouped panels for both academics and postgraduates. By creating a dual purpose to the conference the Punk Scholars Network aims to bring together established academics and the next generation of punk scholars in a supportive and colloquial environment, which we hope will encourage networking opportunities, ideas exchange and potential future research collaborations.

Since its birth over 40 year ago, the music genre of heavy metal and hard rock has become not only a significant sub-culture but also an acknowledged subject for academic studies in various fields, even an interdisciplinary field of study in its own right. In the last few years, we have witnessed an increasing amount of events and publications in the metal academia, addressing the multiplicity of metal cultures, practices, and markets. The “International Society for Metal Music Studies” (ISMMS) and Metal Music Studies journal have also been established. In April 2013, the members of metal academia gathered in the “Heavy Metal and Popular Culture Conference”, hosted by the Bowling Green State University, in Ohio U.S. A decision was made there to bring the next main conference to Helsinki, Finland, the renowned metal capital of the Northern hemisphere.

Metal music has suffused to multiple directions, different markets and cultural layers – remaining marginal in some while enjoying mainstream success others. It has taken many forms, created a countless number of subgenres and representations, flirted and connected with other music genres and cultural products. Global and transnational communities have come into being simultaneously with the birth and development of local scenes. Moreover, the evolution of metal, as any other music genre, is impacted by the technological and economic revolution that has radically reshaped the forms of music production, delivery, consumption and culture – let alone the role of social media in communication, community building and fandom. Altogether, metal is embracing new fans and markets, creating new practices, forming new cultures, while treasuring the strong and polymorphous legacy of the genre. This brings along plenty of new challenges and opportunities for metal music studies in different genres.

The “Modern Heavy Metal” (MHM) conference will review, explore and discuss the current standing of metal; the plethora of its forms, cultures, practices, and markets. The conference will consist of research presentations, keynote speeches, industry/artist/media panels and other metal-laden program. In addition to the academic contents, the plan is to create close connections to the metal practice: the artists, their managers and other stakeholders, media, as well as the general metal audience. The event week will most likely include other metal entertainment spread over the evenings and the weekends.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Released on March 31 2014

To build up the academic program of the conference, we invite paper (and session) proposals from different fields of academic study to this interdisciplinary event. We are particularly interested in contributions shedding light on the markets, practices and cultures, faced by the metal practitioners and fans in the current multifaceted and global expression of heavy metal and its countless forms and sub-genres. The event is open not only for academics focusing on metal studies (in business studies, cultural studies, social sciences, humanities, musicology, arts, and other fields) but also for scholars from the wide range of popular music and popular culture studies. We warmly welcome also views from “the outside” to discuss and compare metal with other genres and cultural forms and helps in positioning metal in the bigger picture of cultural production and consumption.

The suggested themes include (but are not limited to):

Metal music industry and markets; global and local views, formation and structure of markets, entertainment and cultural industries

Metal on the borderline; positions and connections of metal within the popular music and popular culture context

Various topics exploring the phenomena and representations of metal and related genres.

Alongside with more traditional research papers, novel and creative approaches to research are strongly encouraged. Theoretical reviews, practical case studies, conceptual studies, methodological papers, ethnographical reports, lyrical and visual analyses, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and various other forms and approaches are supported. With the long abstract and paper process, we hope that many new studies get ignited and completed for the conference.

Please note that the paper review process comprises two stages: abstract and full paper. Final acceptance is based on the full paper. Full papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings book (electronic and/or printed version) that will be launched prior to the conference.

Abstract body should describe the proposed contents of the paper: background, contribution, methods, tentative results (list of references not needed)

Submission may also be made in the form of a session proposal, including a title page with proposed session title & short rationale for the session + abstracts of all included papers (4-5 papers per session)

September 30 2014

Notification of acceptance & invitation to submit a full paper

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Local Organizing Committee; review will focus on the relevance of the theme to the conference and overall quality of the proposals.

December 31 2014

Deadline for full papers

Specific guidelines will be given along with the notification of acceptance

3000-5000 words

February 15 2015

Notification of acceptance & comments for improving the paper

Papers will be subject to double blind review by an International Review Committee, review will focus on the relevance of the theme to the conference and academic quality of the papers.

Accepted / Conditionally accepted (revision required) / Rejected

March 31 2015

Deadline for final papers

Improved on the basis of reviewers’ comments

The full papers received by the deadline will be included in the Conference Proceedings book, available in the conference

Possibilities for a post-conference publication, with more advanced papers, may be discussed with selected authors during and after the event.

June 8-12 2015

THE CONFERENCE

More detailed program and conference venue will be announced closer to date

Tentatively, the conference program will extend over three days: Tuesday 9/6, Wednesday 10/6 and Thursday 11/6

Additional sessions and/or various pre/post-conference program may be arranged on Monday 8/6 and Friday 12/6

The conference week may include a variety of side program in the evenings/weekends

REGISTRATION & PARTICIPATION FEE

More information about the registration deadlines and procedures as well as the participation fees will be posted in the Autumn of 2014. We aim to keep the fee relatively low with early-bird options available. The fee will include the conference program with lunches, coffee and refreshments, proceedings book, conference materials and merchandise, and other benefits later announced. Options for accommodation in different price ranges will also be suggested.

We are currently receiving papers for the fifth and sixth issues of the RBEC – Brazilian Journal of Song Studies. We welcome articles that deal with popular music (Brazilian, Anglo-American, Hispanic etc.) under several analytical approaches, be them musicological, literary, historical, sociological, philosophical etc. The Journal's editorial line, as well as the guidelines for submissions are available on this website. The deadline is March 5th, 2014; papers should be sent to estudosdacancao@gmail.com, and issues 5 and 6 will be launched simultaneously in the second semester of 2014. We kindly remind authors that the editorial board will not accept 1) papers which do not conform to the Journal's guidelines, both in terms of editorial line as well as concerning formatting issues; 2) papers whose abstracts have not been written by a proficient translator, i.e. abstracts produced by electronic translators without further human proofreading will be automatically vetoed); 3) papers with considerable writing problems - the authors are fully responsible for the textual and grammatical accuracy of their articles.

We are currently receiving papers for the fifth and sixth issues of the RBEC – Brazilian Journal of Song Studies. We welcome articles that deal with popular music (Brazilian, Anglo-American, Hispanic etc.) under several analytical approaches, be them musicological, literary, historical, sociological, philosophical etc. The Journal's editorial line, as well as the guidelines for submissions are available on this website. The deadline is January 30, 2014; papers should be sent to estudosdacancao@gmail.com, and issues 5 and 6 will be launched simultaneously in the second semester of 2014. We kindly remind authors that the editorial board will not accept 1) papers which do not conform to the Journal's guidelines, both in terms of editorial line as well as concerning formatting issues; 2) papers whose abstracts have not been written by a proficient translator, i.e. abstracts produced by electronic translators without further human proofreading will be automatically vetoed); 3) papers with considerable writing problems - the authors are fully responsible for the textual and grammatical accuracy of their articles.

We are currently receiving papers for the fourth issue of the RBEC – Brazilian Journal of Song Studies, due to be online in the second semester of 2013. We welcome works that deal with popular music (Brazilian, Anglo-American, Hispanic etc.) under any analytical approaches, be them musicological, literary, historical, sociological, philosophical... The Journal's proposal, as well as the guidelines for submissions are available on this website. The deadline is April 30, 2013, and papers should be sent to estudosdacancao@gmail.com. We kindly remind authors that the articles which do not conform to the Journal's guidelines will be rejected, and also that they are fully responsible for the textual/grammatical accuracy of their texts.

We are currently receiving papers for the third number of the RBEC – Brazilian Journal of Song Studies, due to be online by January 2013. The Journal's proposal, as well as the guidelines for submissions are available on this website. The deadline is September 30, 2012, and the papers should be sent to estudosdacancao@gmail.com. We kindly remind that papers which do not conform to the guidelines will be rejected, and also that the authors are fully responsible for the textual/grammatical accuracy of their texts.